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10:46pm: Yes, indeed! I meant to update before this, because as I released a few days ago, I left you all on cliff hanger regarding my job news! Thing was I realised that since nothing had been made official yet I decided I better not mention it...

But now I can! That news is that I've been offered the Collections Assistant job! I'm so surprised to be honest :Op I though I did terribly on that interview as I said.

Of course, I'm still hoping to get the Collections Librarian role - which I'm still in - they're supposed to be advertising it any day now, but they're dilly-dallying on that. I have a slightly better chance I think, as it's still a 28 hours a week role rather than the full-time (although we could sorely use full-timers! We've got a backlog and all the extra work we have to do makes hard to catch up, we're getting closer though), although there's still the fact I don't actually have the experience in cataloguing. But the pay of course is way better, and while I'm pretty sure I can still afford the apartmento on the Assistant's salary it'll be a bit dicey.

Another reason to update is that some of my old school friends and I had a get together today, yay! Due to our general inability to organise stuff it's been aaages! Especially for one of them - since she lives over the Bridge and I sure don't go out that way these days.

Also, two of my friends have had babies since I've last seen them. One had a girl and the other a boy, there's also quite a difference in size LOL! The boy despite been younger is the bigger one, interesting how that goes down.

But yeah, it's always fun to hang out with the gang again! Even though one of them will be moving away soon :O( I curse my lack of ability to travel - like even if I had the money I'm still leery about getting on planes or trains.

Actually I had a bit of an issue with driving yesterday which resulted in a panic attack, it's very aggravating, especially because it only seems to happen when I'm driving in one direction. Like...I can drive on the same stretch of road in the opposite direction and I'm fine! Go the other way though and my anxiety goes through the roof. WTH me?

So I've ended up with a nasty scratch on my upper chest area again, which thoroughly sucks let me tell you,e it's in a bad spot so when I try to put a bandaid on it it won't stay properly. Plus you can see the bandaid anyway, grumble, grumble.

Anywho, I better wrap this up, because even though Daylight Savings ends tonight meaning it's more like 10:03pm I've been yawning a lot so I think I need to catch up on some zzzzs.

Ta-ta for now! :O)

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11:35pm: So I'm not sure I mentioned this before, but I bought a car cover for my car from Aldi on Monday and I've been using it for the past couple of days. It's been going quite well, at least until this afternoon when I managed to snap my aerial!

Shiiit, I should have realised it was going to happen, but I didn't and now I'm worried that my radio won't work! Also that it's going to be expensive to fix? I think maybe I just need to unscrew the the bottom bit of the aerial and have a new one put in. Except I couldn't seem to unscrew it when I went out to check. Man, I sure as Hell hope not, since it's bound to be expensive if I have to put a whole new aerial in, there's a cable you have to take out and everything.

Honestly, why do I suck at taking care of my stuff?!

Apart from that, it was a usual Wednesday, excepting that I didn't work this morning, I went to the school for scripture and Mum came over afterwards to check out the Granny Flat, which is looking quite nice if I do say so myself.

I've also been working on my NaNo, although I haven't hit 5,000 words yet. I'm thinking I should hang out at the library or something so I can type at a proper table and whatnot...on the other hand I also need to call my friend to see if she wants to hang out, I meant to do that this afternoon, but I procrastinated and now it's too late. Pft fail.

Speaking of which, here's my word metre so far:

4531 / 50000 words. 9% done!

So not all that bad, almost ten percent there!

However, I probably haven't been getting enough sleep - despite not having to get up early so that's dumb of me.

So yes, on that note I better head off, goodnight!

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11:19pm: Check out these guys! They're deep sea divers who work on gas rigs out in the North Sea and in order to do so they have to go into this special saturation chamber for the entirety of their work schedule so they can get acclimitised down there and not die. I didn't know this but you can't breath regular air down there, apparently nitrogen kills down there? So instead the mix oxygen with helium...hence everyone sounds like chipmunks.

IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE THESE GUYS SERIOUSLY!!! Like imagine if it was your first day in the control room and some guy had an emergency and you can't stop laughing. I guess you get used to it after a while, but still! Also I wonder if the divers can hear how funny they sound? Or does it eventually become normal to them and then when they come out everyone else sounds super looooow, 'cause that would be reversely amusing.

Anyway, moving on, today was a busy day! First there was work for Mrs S, then I returned my sandals to the shop and got a credit note, so I tried to find some sneakers. But I didn't find any there that caught my fancy, they've got other shops though, two in Dee Why so I'll try them tomorrow when I go to volunteer at the library.

After that I went to get some things for Mrs S from the hardware shop and then to a car shop - where I thought about getting a car cover to protect my car, but instead got some of this spray that's rain repellent, I sure hope it works!

Later on in the evening I went and picked up Mum who returned from her trip to see her friend, so it was great to see her again. :O) Also I drove past where my apartment is going to be built, it's been a few weeks since I've done so and wow they've done a lot, like demolish the whole building that was there! Nice. Except I need to bump up my savings if I'm gonna get the stamp duty!

Finally...the Australian Government apparently wants all our licence photos so they can follow us around with survillence cameras and shit. Which sounds pretty dodgy to me, I don't want the government being able to follow me around whenever they want!

Well, it's late and since I do want to go look for shoes tomorrow and have to work at the Mona Vale Library tomorrow as well I better head to bed so I can get enough zzzs I kind of didn't last night.

Goodnight all!

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11:04pm: Yes, I'm afraid I do use more bandwidth then I thought I would because I've run out of it and now my internet provider has slowed my internet riiiight down to dial-up speeds! I could pay 10 bucks to get buy some more data, but with only four days left in the month I'm not sure if it's the best use of my money.

Although, there's more ice skating coming up this weekend! That being the case I should buy the data block sooner rather than later to get my money's worth. But I dunno...I have quite a bit of data left on my phone, but I'm sure it wouldn't last.

In other news, my bedside lamp's light bulb just decided to burn out and I'm pretty sure I don't have another one - which I was just discussing with Mrs S the other day. Grumble, grumble.

What else? Not much, had a shift at the library today, usually on Tuesday's the Duke of Ed school kids come by to do volunteer work thus meaning we have to leave the shelving to them, but it's school holidays so they're not in. Also there's currently a Where's Wally event going on in the library, which I decided to join in on, LOL. Not that I can actually enter, but I managed to find everything so yaaay.

Right, I better wrap this up because I need to go to bed, although I finally got some writing done, maybe I should leave the internet alone... :OP

But for the time being, I'm off!

Oh and I went swimming today with Mum at the Retirement Village's swimming pool, yaaay, always fun! And also washed my car before the landlord's get back, so I do feel very productive!

Goodnight all!

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11:17pm: Indeed, they had a tendency to slip today when I went skating, which is never good, after all I don't want to fall on my ass!

This time I got there just as the session was starting and aaaah skating on new Zamboni-ed ice is the best! So smooooth!

Speaking of skating, Plushy decided to be the legend he is and resurrect his most famous exhibition program - a strip-tease (panic not, he wears a muscle suit!) to Tom Jones's Sex Bomb. It's as hilarious as it sounds. I'm a bit bummed I didn't try harder to go and see these shows as I'm pretty sure this exhibition piece won't happen again. On the other hand I'd probably die from the thrill/second-hand embarrassment :OP

Still the lesson is...Plushy is more awesome than you. :OP

What else to report? Well, I got my laundry done, a day late and the pizza base so I could make my pizza also a day late.

I'm also thinking I need to get more zzzs - this is a common refrain for me, but I was quite sleepy as I drove home from the ice rink today and you know...driving when sleepy is a baaaad idea.

Which is why I have to wrap this up because I need to get to bed soon and also because my brain is not functioning right now, LOL. I wish I had a clearer head though I want to write more on my fan fic! It's going pretty well, although I'm not entirely sure I've picked the right tense to write it - did I mention this before? I think I started with the present and I keep falling back to the past. Obviously I'm gonna have to check this over carefully if I finish it and put it up. :O)

Anyway, I better be off now, hopefully I'll have a more interesting entry tomorrow.

Goodnight all!

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11:41pm: So it would seem! After a whole week of wet weather it's finally cleared up out there, and now it's almost gone back to summertime weather! I'm sweating here and have had to turn my air-con on. Only downside to that is it still seems to get cold in the late night so I have to grab the doona, but theeen when I wake up I'm all sweaty and gross.

And that's why spring and autumn are a pain in the ass sleepwise.

Moving along, I got the car registered today, I left it at the mechanics and it was ready to go when I finished work at Mrs S's (although for some reason they didn't answer the phone when I called to confirm that, so I was quite relieved when I got there and found out it was indeed ready.

Although my plan to go to Dee Why Library and the Medical Centre before my library shift didn't happen, instead I went after, but sadly...no sign of the Up. I guess I'll never know what happened to it. But if someone picked it up I hope they can at least use it. Meanwhile I've ordered a new Up and magnetic clip thing, although the former is sure to arrive before the latter, I guess the clip it comes with will be OK?

Moving on, the shift at the library went well, lots of books to return and patrons to assist, good times, good times. :O)

And time is getting away from me and I'm going to see my friend tomorrow so I must be off to bed now.

So I say goodnight!

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10:15pm: Well, at least I'm getting a good pun in, but in all seriousness this is so fucked up.

As you all know my memory sucks...and this time it's truly ruined my wallet.

I decided after watching the ice skating highlights on SBS that it was time to head to Macquarie Centre and get my skates on. So I'm driving when suddenly police car lights flash in my rearview mirror! I was surprised but thankfully had the presence of mind to pull over rather than keep driving like some of the idiots you see on RBT/ I thought maybe I was getting a random breath test, but after handing my licence over I discovered it was worse...much worse.

I had completely forgotten to register my car!

It expired last Saturday so for almost a week I've been driving around unregistered and uninsured! FUCK! How could this happen?! Why didn't I get a renewal notice?! Didn't I pay for it? (No that was my comprehensive insurance, which is a totally different thing).

The cop was very nice, but that didn't stop him from giving me a ticket for driving unregistered (although, he at least didn't give me one for being uninsured too).

A ticket for $650.

I'll type that out again for you in the back row.

SIX

HUNDRED

AND

FIFTY

DOLLARS!!!

That's more than I earn in a week! That's nearly three weeks worth of savings towards the stamp duty for my apartment. Two and half weeks worth of rent.

It's an absolutely ENORMOUS amount of money! On top of the actual cost of registration and the CTP Greenslip (which is $900). Add to that the parking fine from a few weeks ago...and the speeding fine...my car is swallowing money like a monster. :'O(

I don't understand why this is happening! I've always been such a good driver! Now I'm speeding, illegally parking, scraping and driving unregistered like a complete loser.

What really kills me though is that for some reason, despite the fact I changed my address for my licence, Service NSW (which includes the Road Department) had my OLD address on file. How can that be?! Although as it turned out it doesn't look like the renewal slip came to my old place because I went there on my way home (I couldn't continue on to the ice rink :O( which was the cherry on top of a completely sucky cake) and the old landlord said he hadn't seen it.

So, the damn fuckers didn't even send it!! What the fuck?! The nice cop said I could ask for a review of the fine and see if they'd waive it, but I don't hold out hope...if they wouldn't take pity on me for speeding 7 minutes before I would have been going 20kms under the speed limit, I don't see why they would for driving unregistered and uninsured.

If the review fails you can take it to court, but like that'll happen! If I end up been found guilty I'd need to pay even MORE, and no way could I stand up in court and defend myself.

And here I was thinking the day was looking good because despite having forgotten to take my lunch with me to work I found my nurse's watch! It was on the shelf in the Returns Room of the library where I put my stuff, it must have fallen out. I was so glad to see it again!

However...that watch cost $7, so...it all pales in comparison.

And to top it all off? Because my car is more than five years old, it needs a safety check before I can register it. And absolutely no mechanic in the area is open on Sunday, there's no way I can register my car until Monday. I have no idea how I'm going to achieve it...I've got a shift at the library on Monday afternoon, so I'm not sure if catching a bus to Mrs S's and then back to the house to get the car and taking the car to my mechanic for the check will work because I'll only have 1.5 hours between Mrs S and the library. Although when I type it out like that....

On the other hand I feel like I need to get this looked at as soon as possible, apparently the check can take 15 minutes, but it all depends, it could end up been 40 minutes. If that happened in the 1.5 hours I'd be stuffed because the shift doesn't end until 6pm when the mechanic would be closed, so how would I even get my car?

So I guess on Monday morning I'll get to the mechanic's at 7:30 - Google says he opens at 8am, but who knows maybe he'll open early.

The thing is, I don't want to tell my parents about this...there's nothing they can do about it and even if they lent me money I'd have to pay it back so it's not like I'd save any money. However...Sunday night is when I usually go over there, but obviously I can't do that, even worse I can't go to church with Dad (either in the morning or the evening) because there's no way to get there by public transport (or at least not without catching two buses). But I'm a creature of habit so what am I meant to say? Although it's just occurred to me I could simply tell Dad (Mum will be away at a hotel) that my car's out of rego so I can't drive it without mentioning the supreme fuck-up that was the fine. I guess that'll have to do.

The other big disappoint is that I was supposed to see my grandparents' and little bro tomorrow morning (to thank the former for the money to go on the cruise and to finally give the latter that huge Ferrero Roche I got just after Christmas and which goes off at the end of this month), but obviously I can't drive there either. I rang the little bro to tell him my woes (he's had fines himself so he was most sympathetic) and he did offer to come and pick me up and even drive me to work, although we hadn't actually asked M and Grandpa if they were available for tomorrow so he called them up to ask, but they haven't got back to us yet, so who knows what will happen there.

Oh...and lastly, my activity tracker is still MIA, I called the library, but it wasn't in lost property, but then again...it's hard to describe, also the shelves are magnetic so maybe it's stuck to one of them. As for the Medical Centre, they didn't answer the phone so I have no idea if it could be there. I was planning to go there tomorrow to look, but...can't do that.

Okay then...let's wrap it up here, I still have my Russian to do.

Goodnight.

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11:17pm: Don't you hate it when some bad luck completely shits on your day? Because that's what happened to me, in the form of scraping the bottom of the driver's side of my poor Green Machine when I was trying to get out of a parking lot. Fucking parking lots, I swear to God, they hate me. :O( What a mess! It's not super bad, in fact you'd have to be quite close to it to see it, but I know it's there and there's a bit of dent. :O( Suuucks.

Also, the bloody ants have come back, I guess it's my own fault for not properly cleaning the oven pan I used to make marinated chicken legs last night. I mean I rinsed it and gave it a scrub, but obviously not good enough. I almost had a heart attack when I saw the little buggers this morning, I hate ants! I thought I got rid of them, but when I went over to the sink to fill up my water jug I saw them again. Ick.

But, as I indicated it wasn't all a bad day, firstly I got called in for a shift at the library, yay! Money! And I also finished up at Mrs S's in time to go to the gym (which I had planned to do before I got the call) although it was a bit of a close thing! I didn't get a chance to look for any shorts. I did go to K-Mart looking for some after I finished work, but it would appear it's too late, everything there is autumn/winter clothes. So now I have to wear my good shorts again tomorrow, dang.

I've also just remembered that I've forgotten to call the Red Cross which I really have to do before Friday to stop my donations. Because I can't really afford it.

Anyway, I better head off now, more work tomorrow! Plus I have to do my weekly clean-up in preparation for Mum visiting! I have admittedly let the place go a bit. I'm so lazy.

So goodnight!

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11:47pm: I refer to the Spit Bridge, which opens a few times per day to let boats go through from one part of the harbour to the other. Thing is, I'd forgot what time it opens and it turned out that 11:15am was one of them, which meant...I got stuck waiting as I tried to get to the pyschiatrist's office for the 11:30 appointment.

Suffice to say I was late, booo, which kind of put an end to thoughts of catching the last of the lunchtime ice skating session.

Speaking of ice skating, I got a reply from the cruise line, who told me they did not recommend taking my own skates on board because blades longer that four inches are not allowed on board. I mentioned this to my pyschiatrist, who encouraged me to write back mentioning how even though there's complimentary hire skates available, if you've got your own pair its much easier to use them and the email didn't straight out say it was forbidden only not recommended. He spoke about the need for assertiveness, and I have to admit I am rather a push-over, which makes me wonder...maybe that's why I'm not getting jobs, I'm not expressing enough confidence.

Speaking of jobs though...I got an unexpected phone call today, they're doing interviews for the Inter-Library Loan Officer's position and I have an interview next Tuesday! How exciting! Fingers and toes crossed everyone!

I also had to make an unexpected trip to the doctor because my referral for the psychiatrist had ended, and without one I don't get any money back from Medicare, that was a bit of a pain but I did make some purchases including a purple shirt! It's pretty much the same colour as the one I made! It has weird sleeve though, I'm not entirely sure how to work them out to be honest...hope I can though. Although I did tell myself I'd make my own purple shirt... I wasn't going to buy it, but I needed to spend an extra two bucks to use eftpos at Lifeline and I'd found some pinstriped pants that were $6 and this milk jug in the shape of chicken for $2.

However, I kind of made a mistake with the pinstripe pants...they're size 16! For some reason I thought they were size 8s and perhaps the reason they were in a second hand shop was because they were mislabled. But nope, so suffice to say they're a bit too big. Whoops. Ah well, I guess I could just give them away, it's only 2 bucks loss.

Right, better haul butt now, it's almost midnight and this Moose needs sleep!

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10:44pm: I've got the photo of my dress that I wore on Sunday! Not through Photobucket that's still acting-up, but here's the link, which will hopefully work! What do you think of the shoes? Like I said 10 bucks from K-Mart.

Moving along, guess who popped in today to pick up something...Mum! Ha, figures. Although, I've been keeping the place pretty tidy so I was able to make it look pretty decent by the time she arrived. I even got to show her my new folding style, it is indeed looking mighty fine. :O)

Anywho as this morning I headed off to the Mall to do some Christmas shopping. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any 60s cocktail music, dang. I tried looking up the flower bloom thing on my mobile, but its battery was running out again plus there's no nursery in the Mall so I wouldn't have been able to get it anyway.

I did get Mrs S's coffee machine, although for some reason they only had red colour ones left, which is weird because the one Mrs S took a photo of was silver, but even when the cashier looked it up in other shops...only red. I still bought even though Mrs S really wanted it in silver, but it's very fancy and looks like it'll be easy to use so....

I did buy my little bro's gift and after some hunting about managed to find a picture book about Australian animals for my niece, but I still need to get something for the big bro, Eri, Mum and Dad. Which has made me realise I have no idea what Eri would even like! I'll have to ask the big bro about that.

After getting home I did some laundry before heading off to the gym and I planned to wash my car, except someone had parked in the spot right outside the house so I couldn't because the hose will only stretch so far. However, as Mum was leaving we found that the car had left so the washing was on!

And of course...not too long after I finished up there was a thunderstorm, grumble, grumble. I have found that generally if you wash your car before it rains the rain doesn't leave spots all over.

After the storm things took a different turn when Mum called to remind me about the contracts for the Newtown parking spot and the studio apartment. I was meant to sign them - one in front of a witness so she can take them to the solicitor some time and that time is tomorrow! So, I ended up going over there for that, the big bro had one of his friends over and she was nice enough to be the witness. I also got to see the niece, she seemed very intrigued by my stripey green shirt and green watch, LOL, perhaps she'll love green too! :O)

Still haven't picked her up, but I did giver her hug and even read The Hungry Caterpillar to her, but I don't think she was all that interested LOL. I love the Caterpillar though. :O)

Ah bugger I'm recording Cold Case but the storms have come back and interfering with the antenna. Damn, hope I have this episode, but I guess it'll come back on.

Right, I better wrap this up, work is on tomorrow so I better not stay up too late.

Goodnight all!

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